Originally Posted by
ezcc
For something like this I would hire somebody. A landscaper will be able to source inexpensive plants and make it look really sharp- like a home stager for the outside. I love to garden, but making something like this look good quickly will be easier for a pro. The first drive by impression is so, so important in making a house look good.
My now-former neighbor hired a landscape designer to re-do her landscaping and it was amazing.
She mixed perennials of varied heights and decorative grasses with hardy stuff like hostas (which I kind of hate, but they're easy to maintain) and green shrubs for a lot of visual interest. It only got annoying in the fall when the grasses did what grasses do in the fall - they went seedy & birds used them for nest reinforcements.
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Liz
DD (3/2010)
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